Elisabeth stood on the platform with the others, waiting to be let through the barricade. The week had passed quickly, and from the triumph at the Quidditch Cup to her top exam marks Elisabeth felt rather pleased with herself.

Cage came over to where she was standing. "So I guess I'll be seeing you around?"

"Absolutely, you can't get away from me."

He grinned. "You had better come and see me."

"Don't worry."

He smiled and walked through the barricade.

The next person to vome over was Signey. "So, you'll be having a good summer I trust?"

"Absolutely, and you?"

"Hey, I'm going away to school."

"Oh yeah, how are you going to get there?"

Signey shoved her hands into the pockets of her dreams and looked out beyond Elisabeth. She looked down at Elisabeth again. "I'll walk if I have to."

Elisabeth hugged her tightly. "Don't worry. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be eh?"

"That's right." Elisabeth watched as her friend walked off the platform, turning one last time to wave.

Derrick and Vivyann came over next. "Ah, the unseperable two."

"You bet. So, I guess we won't get to see you what with, everything, and all so we thought we'd say good bye."

"Alright, and you two will be back in the autumn? You aren't heading out on some sort of adventure that will bring you back around Christmas?"

Derrick smiled. "Well I don't know about Vivyann but an adventure would lead to a flogging from my parents."

Elisabeth smiled and kissed him on the cheek, then hugged Vivyann and watched them go through the barricade.

Christina came by next. "How are you doing? Honestly."

"Getting better. You just get that weird feeling that one or the other of you will be there when the world stops turning but now? I guess e need to move on." She hugged Elisabeth and raised her hand as she walked out.

The last person to come by before Elisabeth and the others stepped was Chase. "So I'll come by when you're at home." He paused and smiled. "If you're ever at home."

Elisabeth grinned. "Come to the Quidditch games. I'll be there."

"Ready made date." Chase said, winking.

Elisabeth blushed. "Aside from the fact that my dad will be there."

Chase leaned over to whisper in Elisabeth's ear. "Unless I'm mistaken your dad doesn't have x-ray vision."

Elisabeth blushed even deeper and pushed him gently. "I have to go through the barricade now." She pointed in the wrong direction and Chase turned her arm around. She blushed again.

He kissed her quickly and loped away, waving.

Elisabeth turned and looked at the others. Moira and Anna's eyes were huge. "What!?"

They just shook their heads. Elisabeth shook her head as well, and they walked through the barricade.

"Dad!" Elisabeth hurried forward and hugged her dad.

"Oh my god! If you weren't so short I would have thought you were sixteen."

Elisabeth frowned. "Says Mr 5' 5"."

Harry smiled and put his arm around his daughter. "So are you going to come home with me and then go over to Anna's or are you just going to run off?"

Elisabeth smiled. "Well, I still haven't seen our house."

"That's right! You haven't. Hey! 'Mione!"

"What?"

"Why don't you guys come over to my place, we'll order pizza and so on and so forth. Mal-Draco is coming over with Apacia, Seamus and Caroline are coming over and I think Viktor is coming over, his daughter is running off somewhere. You remember Viktor Krum right?"

"Uh-oh." Said Ron, "In that case I think we'll stay home."

Hermione glared at him. "Of course we'll come over." She said.

"Neville?"

Neville smiled and shook his head. "Lavender is getting antsy, wants me hom. Cadian is getting to be a handful." He looked at his kids, "you two can go if you like though."

Moira and Daniel nodded and the group apparated out of the station and to the house.

Harry smiled as he watched Elisabeth's reaction to the house. He knew she had been expecting a place on a street, surrounded by other houses but it was actually secluded from the townof Edil. It was on the top of a hill, surrounded by more trees than there where in all of Scotland. A winding stone pathway led up to the house. It was a neat house, like a cottage. It had the amazing ability to feel cozy and comfortable whether there was one person or a dozen in it.

Actually Harry had yet to spend a day alone in this house. Always someone had spent the night crashed on the couch, the floor, or, in the case of Marit Svenson, in his bed.

Elisabeth looked at the house, it had a huge picture window and a cobbled walkway up to the door. She turned to her dad, eyes wide.

He smiled. "You like it?" she hugged him tight and that was reply enough.

Hermione looked at the house, and then at Harry. She knew that if Elisabeth had said that the house was tacky, or too small he would sell it and find another without a backwards glance. She wondered if Elisabeth knew just how lucky she was.

They went into the house and Harry gave the tour, leaving Elisabeth to look at her room.

It was beautiful. Unlike the other rooms it had no corhers, it was completely circular. It was painted sage green and it had silver trim and silver stenciling scrolling around the walls. The room was actually on two levels. Whn you walked in there were chairs all around the top level, but when you walked down three steps the bed (also circular) was in the middle.

"Isn't this room great?" Elisabeth asked the others.

"Yeah. Beautiful."

Elisabeth smiled and turned back to them. "Let's go." They walked back to the adults.

Caroline and Seamus had just arrived. "I told you they were here!"

"Well sorry! Next time I'll just let you drag us half way around the country."

"Half way around the country! Ha! We went 30 K out of our way last ime okay? 30 K."

"30 K huh? Try thirty thousand."

"Oh now you hush!"

Seamus shook his head and sat down and smiled at Elisabeth. "So is her majesties room to her liking?"

"Oh absolutely! It's gorgeous!"

"You have Marit to thank for that. If your dad and I had had our way it would have been orange."

Elisabeth shuddered and laughed. "Marit Svenson?"

"How many other Marit's do you know?"

Elisabeth shrugged. "I didn't know you were seeing her." She said to her dad.

"Sure. Since January. Didn't I tell you?"

"Uh, no."

"I could have sworn I did." He looked at Penny suspiciously. "Well anyway, come here, I have something to talk to you about."

Elisabeth followed him into his room. "Okay?"

Harry took a deep breath. "So, I've been seeing Marit for several months, and I like her quite a bit."

"You're not going where I think you're going with this are you?"

"Elisabeth, I want to ask Marit to marry me. But." He said, before she could say anything. "I want to make sure that you're okay with it, that you don't have any problems."

"Well, I did think she was nice. What I saw of her, and uh." Then her eyes flew open. "That would make Kris my uncle!"

"Oh Libby, you're not still on about that are you?"

"Well no, I'm going out with Chase O'Reilly now but still.."

"What!? You never told me."

"Let's get back on topic shall we? I guess I'm okay with you marrying her. I guess. But isn't she way younger than you?"

"Only two years."

"Oh. Well, could I meet her first, or something? Like just get to know her?"

Harry smiled. "Of course. I'm glad you're okay with this."

Elisabeth nodded. "Back out there?"

"Shall we?" he put his arm out for his daughter and she took it, smiling.